: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:34 pm  

BringBackRugbyLeagueBiff wrote:

Yes.

How can you gain an accurate opinion listening to that dire commentary that's on offer

not a fan of KCFm than are you ?

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:55 pm  

Hutchie wrote:

not a fan of KCFm than are you ?

Edited.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:57 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

However the match panned out, on a heavy pitch against a very strong Bradford pack, you've got to be happy with a point.

Before the game I would have taken that, but not at half-time.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:58 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Hope Vella's injury's not too bad. Medial knee ligament damage according to Morgan - will miss the Leeds game.

Ditto.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:02 pm  

Gordon Gekko wrote:

Well they weren't.

Rovers had better chances despite being tonked in the penalty count, field position and possession and you can add to that the loss of Vella after 15 mins. They also had a perfectly good try chalked off. Last season under those circumstances they would have been soundly beaten.

Defensively they were superb and were always a threat with ball in hand. They only real negative was they coughed up the ball too many times and put themselves under pressure.

Absolutely couldn't agree more Sir.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:02 pm  

how did fozzard play on his debut ???????

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:19 pm  

St.Ben wrote:

how did fozzard play on his debut ???????

Not bad, nothing amazing, just a solid performance not many mistakes.

: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:23 am  

Gordon Gekko wrote:

Well they weren't.

Rovers had better chances despite being tonked in the penalty count, field position and possession and you can add to that the loss of Vella after 15 mins. They also had a perfectly good try chalked off. Last season under those circumstances they would have been soundly beaten.

Defensively they were superb and were always a threat with ball in hand. They only real negative was they coughed up the ball too many times and put themselves under pressure.

Sums it up for me too.

Bradford's pack is gonna be a handful for any team this year though I thought their half-backs lacked creativity (considering the amount of time they spent camped on our line) and their backs are woeful.

What was the penalty count anyway?

: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:31 am  

heard 10-4 on the radio but i only caught snippets. Sounds like it was a good game and a cracking following as well.

edit 10-4 on the pen count

: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:54 am  

Thaler had a very poor game, kept Bradford in it with some very strange decisions!

We deserved both points on offer and not just the one got.

Bradford - they were exactly what I expected from them, good go-forward from their pack but pretty clueless in the backs.

Our defensive display was a credit, we defended our own line solidly. Although Thaler gave plenty of confusing penalties we didnt help ourselves out with a fair amount of handling errors. I thought our kicking game could have been better yesterday.
I thought Newton was rock solid in defence but MOTM for me was clearly Briscoe, he made one error all game and if he was another yard closer to the Newton(think it was him)break in the second half, he could have easily added a try to his game.

I think both teams will be pretty happy with the result, Rovers more so as Bradford will be a difficult place this season to get any sort of result. Both teams also have plenty of improvement in them.